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Mmm if a remake of the SS or Turbo was to materialise I just know they would mess it up. When I spoke to DB at Interbike they didn't even know who Kashimax was (perhaps since they are not really Diamond Back and just some giant company that owns brand names including DB). Left to them to do this without appropriate input, I can only imagine the components they'd use.
There's a bit of a dilemma I see.I'm not sure simply saying to Raleigh...here you go copy a HLT and SS frame/forks is the way to go.Neither am I sure whether taking a current frame, add the components/name to create something that isn't.Maybe the route could be a current frame, add the looptail and gussets and decent parts set using modern day repops/names where possible.
Quote from: sparky on March 10, 2016, 05:29 PMThere's a bit of a dilemma I see.I'm not sure simply saying to Raleigh...here you go copy a HLT and SS frame/forks is the way to go.Neither am I sure whether taking a current frame, add the components/name to create something that isn't.Maybe the route could be a current frame, add the looptail and gussets and decent parts set using modern day repops/names where possible.So is someone talking to them about this? As mentioned before, when I spoke to them at Interbike (a few years ago now), they seemed clueless. Looking at the parent company's website its clear that money is the only thing that interests them.
Quote from: Natsukashi on March 11, 2016, 12:40 AMQuote from: sparky on March 10, 2016, 05:29 PMThere's a bit of a dilemma I see.I'm not sure simply saying to Raleigh...here you go copy a HLT and SS frame/forks is the way to go.Neither am I sure whether taking a current frame, add the components/name to create something that isn't.Maybe the route could be a current frame, add the looptail and gussets and decent parts set using modern day repops/names where possible.So is someone talking to them about this? As mentioned before, when I spoke to them at Interbike (a few years ago now), they seemed clueless. Looking at the parent company's website its clear that money is the only thing that interests them.I am. It was something I raised in my recent visit to them because come 2017 it will be DB's 40th Anniversary. Although it's just an idea at the moment some of the suggestions and ideas discussed have been positive.
Quote from: sparky on March 11, 2016, 06:40 AMQuote from: Natsukashi on March 11, 2016, 12:40 AMQuote from: sparky on March 10, 2016, 05:29 PMThere's a bit of a dilemma I see.I'm not sure simply saying to Raleigh...here you go copy a HLT and SS frame/forks is the way to go.Neither am I sure whether taking a current frame, add the components/name to create something that isn't.Maybe the route could be a current frame, add the looptail and gussets and decent parts set using modern day repops/names where possible.So is someone talking to them about this? As mentioned before, when I spoke to them at Interbike (a few years ago now), they seemed clueless. Looking at the parent company's website its clear that money is the only thing that interests them.I am. It was something I raised in my recent visit to them because come 2017 it will be DB's 40th Anniversary. Although it's just an idea at the moment some of the suggestions and ideas discussed have been positive.Don't want to be negative but if it's the same company that was involved in the Anniversary Burners I'd be very weary. They took what was initially a good idea, saw the profit potential, knocked out pieces of crap that didn't sell well and ended up being sold off at heavily discounted prices.
Quote from: rodriguez on March 11, 2016, 01:12 PMQuote from: sparky on March 11, 2016, 06:40 AMQuote from: Natsukashi on March 11, 2016, 12:40 AMQuote from: sparky on March 10, 2016, 05:29 PMThere's a bit of a dilemma I see.I'm not sure simply saying to Raleigh...here you go copy a HLT and SS frame/forks is the way to go.Neither am I sure whether taking a current frame, add the components/name to create something that isn't.Maybe the route could be a current frame, add the looptail and gussets and decent parts set using modern day repops/names where possible.So is someone talking to them about this? As mentioned before, when I spoke to them at Interbike (a few years ago now), they seemed clueless. Looking at the parent company's website its clear that money is the only thing that interests them.I am. It was something I raised in my recent visit to them because come 2017 it will be DB's 40th Anniversary. Although it's just an idea at the moment some of the suggestions and ideas discussed have been positive.Don't want to be negative but if it's the same company that was involved in the Anniversary Burners I'd be very weary. They took what was initially a good idea, saw the profit potential, knocked out pieces of crap that didn't sell well and ended up being sold off at heavily discounted prices.you can't lump the whole anniversary programme by Raleigh together, the first one in 2007 that Dave hall had input on we're great little bikes, they sold well. The trouble with them started after that, Raleigh got greedy, thinking because they managed it once they could do it again but with bigger margins so all production costs were cut to the minimums, cheap parts were used and they were sold at the price as the original anniversaries, only they were inferior bikes. Hence the glut of boxed ones still around.